Improper Privilege Management in JBoss Application Server and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - CVE-2012-2312
Published: December 18, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU34956
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2312
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
JBoss Application Server
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
JBoss Application Server
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
An Elevated Privileges issue exists in JBoss AS 7 Community Release due to the improper implementation in the security context propagation, A threat gets reused from the thread pool that still retains the security context from the process last used, which lets a local user obtain elevated privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2312
Install update from vendor's website.